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Show LIKE A BUTTERFLY NET. Queer Contrivance Used by the Filipino Fili-pino When He Sets Out to Capture Cap-ture n Mess of Fish. An odd sort of llsh catching contrivance con-trivance used hi the Philippine lslandi may bo seen nt tho New York nquu-rlum. nquu-rlum. It is an open work, dome shaped thing about two feot in holght anil two feet ncross In Us widest part, nt tho bottom, mado of thin strips of n natlvo wood. Tho upper ends of these strips uro brought closely together around n clrclo of wood nt tho top, whllo from there they spread out uniformly wider nml wider apart like (he wires in tho top part of a round top bird cage. Up under tlieso strips, about nix inches below the top, U sot u wooden hoop, to which each of tho sluts is bound, anil over this hoop the shits nro strung with it slight curve, to bo held In shape and ut unforni distances apart by a tlo run around a couple of inches nbovo their bottom ends. So Hint this Is an open dome shaped contrivance made of alonder curving vertical ribs; nml In Its construction It shows nlco workmanship. work-manship. The Island iidierniun uses this fish catcher In catching flbh much ns a boy lines his lint In catching butterflies; but-terflies; ho claps It down over such comparatively sluggish and bottom feeding flsli as ho can get near enough to for that purpose, nnd through an opening In tho top of tho catcher he reaches down lnsldo of It to solio th fishes thus caught. |